On my Nesus 4 Ubuntu Touch (15.04) I'd like to use other than native music player (it has got better sound quality). The problem is: when I lock the screen the music stops playing. When I unlock the ...

I know how to make an application screen always appear on top, but is there anyway to lock it in place and run in real time(for example, a movie clip runs in a borderless window at some part of the ...

I have seen a file named lock in /var/cache/apt/archives in my Ubuntu 14.04. This file has only root access. When I try to display the contents of this file using sudo nano lock the file seems empty. ...

My computer is set to automatically dim the screen and lock after 10 minutes, and suspend after an hour of inactivity.
That works fine - but only once I've logged in.
If I switch the computer on and ...

I'm on a Macbook Air 4,1 running 14.04, with surprisingly minimal trouble so far.
However there is an issue with the screen - when I set the 'Lock' on, in 'Brightness and Lock', when I close the lid, ...

I'm trying to use a script for backing up btrfs, and it uses shlock
here is the script:
btrfs-subvolume-backup
now it says i need the inn package, and I've triedn installing it, but still no shlock
...

I have a laptop running Lubuntu. When I leave it for about 10-20 minutes, the screen auto-locks. I can unlock it the first time, but I can not unlock it after that. Instead, I need to force reboot the ...

I have 3 webcams attached to my laptop for a c++/opencv project and my program crashed. Now it keeps giving warnings that "device or resource busy". I suspect this is a OS level error. Is there any ...

I can't disable screen lock in Lubuntu. In Power management I have it unchecked. There is another option "Enable light locker" in the "Light locker settings". I also have this unchecked but I still ...

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 on HP Z400 w/s.
After a lock display or suspend, the screen goes black, pressing any key doesn't display any box to enter my password to unlock screen or do a normal shutdown.
...

Is there a way to modify the lock screen to show a custom message and/or take a picture (/w the webcam) when incorrect password was typed in? (Like it was shown in the movie Goodbye World)
(And does ...

I need to temporarily lock accounts for couple of users on my Ubuntu server. What would be the best way to do this? Reason for doing this is a maintenance. However for some users the accounts need to ...

I'm trying to set up my mongodb upstart script to work as an arbiter, but I'm having permission problems when trying to create the lock file in the data directory:
Tue Apr 1 17:11:01 [initandlisten] ...

I set faillog to lock my users after 3 login attempt failures, but it works only for users belong to "sudo group" I searched the faillog(8) man page for ubuntu 13.04 in http://manpages.ubuntu.com , ...

My OS is Ubuntu 13.10 (32 bit)
Problem Description:
Clicking on Shut Down from the ubuntu top panel , system is displaying Lock and Log Out button. Even both the buttons (i.e. Lock and Log Out) are ...

I sit before you with the common question of how to sync an iPod 5G or any iDevice to Ubuntu 13.10. I have asked Apple tech support many a time aswell as their online chat and it has yielded no info ...

I can see there are many lock file here and there in my system. What is the exact role and purpose of those lock files?
In my system I got this list,
/run/lock/whoopsie/lock
/proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock
...

I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 on a completely new machine, was fresh installed. After a while, while not working on it, the screen turns black, when you try to work again, you can't exit the black screen, ...

Is there any way to lock a folder from terminal(protected with password) without using any third party applications like truecrypt,crypteeper nor giving user permissions.
It was just like whenever a ...

I wanted to bring up an issue with the latest Ubuntu release that I hope can be solved. Although I will agree with the community that iOS 7 is not the most open platform release, it still is my desire ...